Nature's Choice

Nature's Choice
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : 9781135695811
ISBN-13 : 1135695814
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Nature's Choice by : Cheryl L. Weill

The true role of biology in determining sexual orientation is an oft-debated issue in both the popular media and scientific communities, and evaluating the literature on the topic can be daunting. Nature’s Choice: What Science Reveals About the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation offers both a comprehensive review of the scientific literature and a fresh perspective on this complex and politically charged subject. Respected researcher, speaker, and author Dr. Cheryl Weill offers readers of all backgrounds an enlightening analysis of findings from over twenty years of research on the factor of biology in the determination of sexual orientation. Nature’s Choice: What Science Reveals About the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation brilliantly distills complicated studies and research findings dealing with brain anatomy, genetics, sex-typical behavior in children, auditory, startle reflex, and many other areas. Spanning a wide range of important topics including human sexual development and the effects of hormones, Ellis and Ames’ Gestational Neurohormonal Theory, the ins, outs, and implications of how scientific research is funded, and model of the role of testosterone in determining human sexuality, Nature’s Choice: What Science Reveals About the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation is an exciting book to educate and inspire readers from scientific and non-scientific backgrounds equally.

Brands and Their Companies

Brands and Their Companies
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1952
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ISBN-10 : 0787622915
ISBN-13 : 9780787622916
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

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A guide to trade names, brand names, product names, coined names, model names, and design names, with addresses of their manufacturers, importers, marketers, or distributors.

Nature's Fortune

Nature's Fortune
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Publisher : Basic Books
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9780465046966
ISBN-13 : 0465046967
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Nature's Fortune by : Mark R. Tercek

What is nature worth? The answer to this question—which traditionally has been framed in environmental terms—is revolutionizing the way we do business. In Nature's Fortune, Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy and former investment banker, and science writer Jonathan Adams argue that nature is not only the foundation of human well-being, but also the smartest commercial investment any business or government can make. The forests, floodplains, and oyster reefs often seen simply as raw materials or as obstacles to be cleared in the name of progress are, instead, as important to our future prosperity as technology or law or business innovation. Who invests in nature, and why? What rates of return can it produce? When is protecting nature a good investment? With stories from the South Pacific to the California coast, from the Andes to the Gulf of Mexico and even to New York City, Nature's Fortune shows how viewing nature as green infrastructure allows for breakthroughs not only in conservation—protecting water supplies; enhancing the health of fisheries; making cities more sustainable, livable and safe; and dealing with unavoidable climate change—but in economic progress, as well. Organizations obviously depend on the environment for key resources—water, trees, and land. But they can also reap substantial commercial benefits in the form of risk mitigation, cost reduction, new investment opportunities, and the protection of assets. Once leaders learn how to account for nature in financial terms, they can incorporate that value into the organization's decisions and activities, just as habitually as they consider cost, revenue, and ROI. Such a rethinking of “natural capital”—nature as a quantifiable asset—can not only increase profitability, but provide crucial protection against the kinds of climate change-driven phenomena—like devastating drought and hundred-year floods—that are no longer the stuff of speculation. A must-read for business leaders, CEOs, investors, and environmentalists alike, Nature's Fortune offers an essential guide to the world's economic—and environmental—well-being.

Nature's State

Nature's State
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 9781469648095
ISBN-13 : 1469648091
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Nature's State by : Susan Kollin

An engaging blend of environmental theory and literary studies, Nature's State looks behind the myth of Alaska as America's "last frontier," a pristine and wild place on the fringes of our geographical imagination. Susan Kollin traces how this seemingly marginal space in American culture has in fact functioned to alleviate larger social anxieties about nature, ethnicity, and national identity. Kollin pays special attention to the ways in which concerns for the environment not only shaped understandings of Alaska, but also aided U.S. nation-building projects in the Far North from the late nineteenth century to the present era. Beginning in 1867, the year the United States purchased Alaska, a variety of literary and cultural texts helped position the region as a crucial staging ground for territorial struggles between native peoples, Russians, Canadians, and Americans. In showing how Alaska has functioned as a contested geography in the nation's spatial imagination, Kollin addresses writings by a wide range of figures, including early naturalists John Muir and Robert Marshall, contemporary nature writers Margaret Murie, John McPhee, and Barry Lopez, adventure writers Jack London and Jon Krakauer, and native authors Nora Dauenhauer, Robert Davis, and Mary TallMountain.

Strange Natures

Strange Natures
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : 9780252094873
ISBN-13 : 0252094875
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Strange Natures by : Nicole Seymour

In Strange Natures, Nicole Seymour investigates the ways in which contemporary queer fictions offer insight on environmental issues through their performance of a specifically queer understanding of nature, the nonhuman, and environmental degradation. By drawing upon queer theory and ecocriticism, Seymour examines how contemporary queer fictions extend their critique of "natural" categories of gender and sexuality to the nonhuman natural world, thus constructing a queer environmentalism. Seymour's thoughtful analyses of works such as Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues, Todd Haynes's Safe, and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain illustrate how homophobia, classism, racism, sexism, and xenophobia inform dominant views of the environment and help to justify its exploitation. Calling for a queer environmental ethics, she delineates the discourses that have worked to prevent such an ethics and argues for a concept of queerness that is attuned to environmentalism's urgent futurity, and an environmentalism that is attuned to queer sensibilities.

The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative

The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 206
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ISBN-10 : 9780393242720
ISBN-13 : 0393242722
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by : Florence Williams

"Highly informative and remarkably entertaining." —Elle From forest trails in Korea, to islands in Finland, to eucalyptus groves in California, Florence Williams investigates the science behind nature’s positive effects on the brain. Delving into brand-new research, she uncovers the powers of the natural world to improve health, promote reflection and innovation, and strengthen our relationships. As our modern lives shift dramatically indoors, these ideas—and the answers they yield—are more urgent than ever.

Nature's Destiny

Nature's Destiny
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 482
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ISBN-10 : 9780743237628
ISBN-13 : 0743237625
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Nature's Destiny by : Michael Denton

A leading evolutionary thinker, biologist, and medical researcher asks the question: "Could life elsewhere be substantially different from life on Earth?"--and builds a step-by-step argument for human inevitability. 65 illustrations and photos.

Brands and Their Companies

Brands and Their Companies
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Publisher : Gale Cengage
Total Pages : 532
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ISBN-10 : 0787609978
ISBN-13 : 9780787609979
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Brands and Their Companies by : Gale Group

New Edition Brands and Their Companies provides current information as well as historic perspective on 326,000 consumer products trade names, brand names and trademarks and their 68,000 manufacturers, importers or distributors. Find the answer to these and similar consumer product questions: -- What specific brand names exist within the market? -- What kinds of products does a company manufacture? -- Where are manufacturers located? -- What trends are companies trying to set through the naming of their products? -- Where can complaints (or praise) about specific products be sent?

The Living Landscape

The Living Landscape
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Publisher : Timber Press
Total Pages : 393
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ISBN-10 : 9781604697391
ISBN-13 : 1604697393
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis The Living Landscape by : Rick Darke

“This thoughtful, intelligent book is all about connectivity, addressing a natural world in which we are the primary influence.” —The New York Times Books Review Many gardeners today want a home landscape that nourishes and fosters wildlife, but they also want beauty, a space for the kids to play, privacy, and maybe even a vegetable patch. Sure, it’s a tall order, but The Living Landscape shows you how to do it. You’ll learn the strategies for making and maintaining a diverse, layered landscape—one that offers beauty on many levels, provides outdoor rooms and turf areas for children and pets, incorporates fragrance and edible plants, and provides cover, shelter, and sustenance for wildlife. Richly illustrated and informed by both a keen eye for design and an understanding of how healthy ecologies work, The Living Landscape will enable you to create a garden that fulfills both human needs and the needs of wildlife communities.

Companies and Their Brands

Companies and Their Brands
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 2000
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ISBN-10 : 0787699969
ISBN-13 : 9780787699963
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

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